The politics of consumption : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America / / edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Berg, , 2001; London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3; 339.4709
• Soggetto topico: Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects; Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
• Persona (resp. second.): DauntonMartin; HiltonMatthew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Material Politics: An Introduction; 2 What is Rum? The Politics of Consumption in the French Revolution; 3 Social Opulence, Private Asceticism: Ideas of Consumption in Early Socialist Thought; 4 The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Consuming Gas in Victorian Britain; 5 Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and National Identity in the Victorian Tally Trade; 6 'National Taste?' Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920-1940 ; 7 Bread, Milk and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain 8 Enticement and Deprivation: The Regulation of Consumption in Pre-War Nazi Germany; 9 Negotiating Consumption in a Dictatorship: Consumption Politics in the GDR in the 1950's and 1960's; 10 Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the Century of Mass Consumption; 11 The Politics of Plenty in the Twentieth-Century United States; 12 Consumer Politics in Post-war Britain; 13 Strategies of Consumer-Group Mobilization: France and Germany in the 1970's ; 14 Corralling Consumer Culture: Shifting Rationales for American State Intervention in Free Markets Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought; the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities; and the practices and theories of consumer citizenship within the state. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of consumption
• ISBN: 1-350-04892-5; 1-282-90781-6; 9786612907814; 1-84788-110-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964592103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Leisure, consumption, and culture.